[mass noun](Medicine)infestation with a yeast-like fungus, resulting in tumours in the lungs and sometimes spreading to the brain. It occurs chiefly in the United States (医)隐球菌病。 亦称 torulosis
The fungus is Cryptococcus neoformans, subdivision Deuteromycotina (or class Teliomycetes) 该菌为新型隐球酵母,半知菌亚门(或冬孢菌纲)
派生 cryptococcal adjective 语源
1930s: from modern Latin Cryptococcus (part of the binomial of the fungus) + -osis